Welcome to this week’s art/life trail ride…September keyword/focus point: Love. What lights you up and makes you feel radiant? Bodhicitta Heart, Drozda, Mixed media on board, 2010 “I tell you the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.” Vincent Van Gogh “Until […]
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My Little Pony
Welcome to this week’s trail ride…this is our second week in September the month of Love . It’s a fine time to share this image of me at seven…in Love with life…pictured here with my first piece of ‘official’ art made in second grade shop class. We picked out our pattern, drew it onto the […]
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Being a Force of Nature
The truth is that, without writing, it is difficult for most people to go into their thought. By writing you slow thought down, find its emotional context in experience, and give yourself the chance to feel its meaning. As E.M. Forster famously asked, “How can I tell what I think till I see what I say? […]
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Art Outside the Door
Welcome to our Thursday art/life trail ride…I’m so glad that we’re exploring this creative terrain together. This week we visit my favorite studio…that created by our Mother Nature. My joy and appreciation of time out in the open air began early on and is now expanding with my new studio on my fifty acre ‘off […]
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Listen UP!
Welcome to our weekly art/life trail ride! I trust that new insights and adventures are meeting you in every direction! The art/life power word for August is Trust. Dictionary.com: defines Trust: 1. reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence. 2. confident expectation of something; hope. We learn to trust life through the ups and the downs. I use this time each year to consider new and […]
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Moon-Walking Luna-tic
My 5.5 years in the high security lock-up ward pitched me off the regular clock. Being in the ward made me privy to other dimensions in time. It wasn’t my first instance of being thrown out of the mainstream. The difference during the lock-up years was that I elected to have the experience. I made the decision First; a […]
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Five and a Half Years in the High Security Lock-Up Ward
My experience of being in the lock-up ward (1991-1995) taught me much about how I might support others in celebrating strengths which often involves learning to turn wounds to wisdom. I’ll share the story of how I came to be in lock-down…an amazing time… in a future post. It was during those years that I dropped down […]
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Put Your Stake in the Ground
Super Volute, Drozda, Acrylic/board, 12 x 12″ 1998 Last week I shared touchstones that I enlist to support my relationship with a natural and rhythmic flow of time. It’s July 31 and we’re experiencing a phenomenon of ‘once in a Blue Moon’ which happens every couple of years. I invite us to celebrate by going a bit deeper […]
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The School of What’s Happening Now
Once upon a time some days ago I wandered far off the beaten path into the back country of Bandelier National Monument. Backpacking and tenting in the canyons and hiking the mesas I came upon primordial pathways worn into the rocky mountain. These long smooth troughs in stone create sculpted echoes from the foot falls of the Anasazi filling me with wonderful questions about […]
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The Best Gallery in the City
Back in the saddle and rarin’ to go! I begin with a renewed commitment to write and to post, each Thursday…experiencing, expressing, creating and contributing to living the best art/life. Thank you so much for being here! A brief rewind will set the stage… I officially began my professional art career in 1980 when I […]
